<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by koffiejunkie</i>
<br />Noone, I let the modem run during the day (not even all day) only twice this month, and my total account was more than R600. The problem with Telkom is that they disconnect you every now and then for no good reason.
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Hehe, "for no good reason" => "to make lots more money"? That brings back memories ... I remember I got R7 call for a while but got disconnected just often enough that it wasn't worth keeping it! Yet a few years prior to that dial-up worked perfectly from the exact same location .. so seemingly this was a "feature" that they "introduced" at some point. (And this wasn't some 'backwards rural area' with poor lines, it's a modern middle-class suburb in Pta). Since I use the Internet a lot (mostly work-related until recently), MW has still been better than dial-up for me compared to Telkom, but that doesn't say much. My monthly phone bill used to always be over R1000. Of course just because Telkom rips us off so badly doesn't for a moment mean we should actually be tricked into believing R650/mo is 'good value for money', heck it's expensive for what you actually get (compared to just about any other country), in a 'natural' competitive market state this sort of service should be priced at no more than, say, R350/mo.
Anyway, on the topic of capping, by sticking to only local p2p my throughput this month is just over 10GB already :/ (so I'll probably be getting a warning letter or something .. it's much higher than previous months tho, I don't usually do this) .. could actually be much higher still too, I've limited my BW usage to aim for about 10, and only run at night etc. However I'm still not impressed with international bandwidth, which although better than it was still averages about 5 to 6 KB/s for me, but sometimes going as low as 2 - 3. And at the moment I practically never get higher than about 6 or 7 KB on international unless a file is in the proxy, which "doesn't really count".
koffiejunkie, if it were me, I probably would not get MW right now, I would wait and see what e.g. WBS iBurst will offer and what their service etc will be like. That is assuming that you would have iBurst coverage where you are. (I'm not sure if Vodacom are planning on competing in the WISP market either, but they also plan to launch some sort of 3G service very soon.) If I was desparate though I'd probably consider signing a 1-year contract but not a 2-year contract.
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